GRA 3117 Strategy and Entrepreneurship Analytics
GRA 3117 Strategy and Entrepreneurship Analytics
This course teaches the framework and practical tools for strategy and entrepreneurship.
After completing this course, students will have advanced knowledge of the relevant theories, tools, and methods required to model businesses to solve strategic and entrepreneurial problems. The students will have advanced understanding of how they can implement a variety of analytic tools.
By the end of this course, a student should be able to
- describe the firm’s strategy and assess whether the strategy is appropriate
- test hypotheses in a business model
- critically think and analyze a problem through using data and analytical tools
- transform research and analysis into strategic formulation
After completing this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to collect and analyze data for strategic and entrepreneurial decisions.
This course teaches the framework and practical tools for strategy and entrepreneurship. The course focuses on formulating strategy and using analytical tools to navigate through the uncertainties in business decisions. Students will learn how to quantify and analyze businesses, business environments, as well as different strategic and entrepreneurial initiatives. The course offers the students a set of methods and skills that complement their knowledge of conceptual theories in entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategic management.
The course will consist of a combination of lectures and group assignments and will contain quantitative components. Students will learn about various tools used in practice and to apply these methodologies in a range of business contexts.
The course will be a combination of lectures, action learning activities, application, reflection and class discussions.
Please note that while attendance is not compulsory in all courses, it is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class.
This is a course with continuous assessment (several exam components) and one final exam code. Each exam component is graded by using points on a scale from 0-100. The components will be weighted together according to the information in the course description in order to calculate the final letter grade for the examination code (course). Students who fail to participate in one/some/all exam elements will get a lower grade or may fail the course. You will find detailed information about the point system and the cut off points with reference to the letter grades when the course start.
At re-sit all exam components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have specific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
Disclaimer
Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.
Use of Excel for modeling.
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Activity Form of assessment: Class participation Weight: 30 Grouping: Individual Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: Participation in class and through asynchronous platforms. Exam code: GRA 31171 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 30 Grouping: Group (2 - 4) Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: Written group project report (same group as presentation). Presentation of group project (same group as written submission). (Students can be added to groups by course coordinator, making groups larger than maximum size.) Exam code: GRA 31171 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
Exam category: Activity Form of assessment: Presentation Weight: 20 Grouping: Group (2 - 4) Duration: 20 Minute(s) Comment: Presentation of group project (same group as written submission). (Students can be added to groups by course coordinator, making groups larger than maximum size.) Exam code: GRA 31171 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 20 Grouping: Individual Duration: 1 Week(s) Exam code: GRA 31171 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
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Teaching | 36 Hour(s) | In class or online synchronous lecture plus asynchronous activities. |
Student's own work with learning resources | 60 Hour(s) | Student readings and preparation for lectures. |
Group work / Assignments | 30 Hour(s) | Student work in groups on projects and assignments. |
Examination | 34 Hour(s) | Examination related work. |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.